Knowledge Share Description

Join us for a winter knowledge share exploring the medicine of the evergreens in the Pine Family, particularly Pines, Spruce, and Fir. Abundant and vibrant throughout the winter months, these plants provide medicine while the rest of the plant allies are deep in their winter slumber. Pine Family (Pinaceae) trees can be found growing throughout the entire temperate band of the globe and everywhere they occur there are longstanding traditions of working with them as medicine and food. In this knowledge share we'll learn the medicinal uses, proper harvest, identification, and medicinal preparations for this incredible family of trees. They are highly versatile (and delicious!) and can be made into honeys, vinegars, oxymels, cordials, elixirs, syrups, steams, bath salts, oils, added to foods, and more. Participants will leave this knowledge share with the skills to make their own potent and medicinal evergreen medicine and a practical understanding of their medicinal use.

Knowledge Share Includes

• Identification tips for each genus (Pinus, Picea, Abies)

• Focusing on Northeast species, however applicable to species in the same family.

• Medicinal uses of each family

• Demo of oxymel, honey, cordial/elixir, bath salts, and steam integrating plants

Exchange

$35

$70 reparations (If you have financial abundance, this is our pay-it-forward option to fund our scholarships and work redistributing resources to Black and Indigenous Land Projects)

For scholarships please email herbancura@gmail.com with subject Tree Medicine

Access

*ASR Captioning provided 

*Spanish interpretation available (Si requiere interpretacion por favor mande un email a herbancura@gmail.com)

Virtual Gathering

Zoom link will be sent out via email 1-2 days before knowledge share

1-4pm EST

Class will be recorded and available for 30 days

Facilitator

Jade Alicandro weaves a love of bioregionally abundant herbs and kitchen medicine into her work as a community and clinical herbalist. When she’s not teaching bioregional herbalism to students and apprentices, you can often find her roaming the hedges with her harvest basket in-hand or at home in the kitchen brewing-up some potent food as medicine. She’s a mother to her 12 and 8 year-old daughters, tender of chickens and cats and puppy, online educator, blogger and writer, and half-gardener to her mostly wild gardens. From 2012-2019 she ran the Greenfield Community Herbal Clinic, a clinic dedicated to affordable herbal care, and currently maintains a long-distance and local clinical practice. Through her Patreon community she offers monthly online classes and plant study groups, and she teaches an online kitchen herbalism course each winter as well. She draws on the wisdom and traditions of her Southern Italian and Greek ancestral lineages and makes her home in the rolling hills of western Massachusetts in Nipmuk territory. Learn more about her work at www.milkandhoneyherbs.com or find her on facebook and instagram at @milkandhoneyherbs